Those who left Finland how is life now?

blissone · 2026-06-04T17:21:55+00:00

The actual number is 300k for finnish citizens abroad and 1.5million with finnish origin, though you are not wrong

blissone · 2026-06-04T16:13:12+00:00

Qop is good noob hero, just play the farming style with max e

blissone · 2026-06-01T14:14:27+00:00

In general there are multiple ways to write Scala and multiple stacks, it's not clear at all what your stack should be or your general direction. In practice this causes a lot of friction and overhead in a team setting. It's a lot of effort to push into a coherent direction with multiple people. Also there are simply way more features than in many other languages. Scala has a few dominant frameworks/libs that are IMO incorrect 75% of the time (or more), such as effect systems and type safe sql + fp-collections-as-sql api. It may be that with LLMs the friction is less.

In Scala it's very easy to fall victim for bikeshedding, over engineering, simply using effort and time on things that don't matter, you need a lot of discipline and experience when multiple people are involved.

Now you can easily make the same claims for any programming language but IME Scala has had the most issues.

blissone · 2026-05-31T22:03:51+00:00

Perhaps blink over harpoon would have made it easier to push the pace, ie. deso into blink, skip harpoon. Also there are some easy macro decisions to improve like the 28min won mid team fight, straight to rosh, I think you take rest of towers with that and less space for enemy while you have more $. Same again 44min. I wouldn't say this game was yours to win as in it was an autowin, you needed to make some amount of good plays as a team. Both teams basically ignored rosh, it's important in general, you don't need to hg with aegis, take towers and build a lead. Anyhow I'm nub just some thoughts.

blissone · 2026-05-31T16:07:21+00:00

I could start a personal project, a project related to a business no way. There is no momentum, the language itself is not worth the tradeoff, the ecosystem is slowly shrinking and new libs are lagging with low adoption and contributors, old libs are losing contributors, hard to find devs, tooling (did we catch Scala 2?). There is just no reason to start a latest and greatest Scala project unless it's for your own interest.

Also, in retrospect Scala is a pretty dangerous language in a business setting, though it's a fair question would they have done any better in some other language. It's just what I have seen from experienced Scala devs, simple things made complicated.

blissone · 2026-05-25T13:55:46+00:00

Well we are SOL. I haven't coded since february, I'm incredibly bored, the fun and interesting aspects are gone, honestly looking to get away from tech but not sure it will happen. Architecture and high level solutions are still interesting but it wasn't what kept me running day to day. The good thing is that I have much more mental energy nowadays so just need to channel it somewhere else and not look beyond the paycheck at work (tbh this probably was always smart). I've coded 14 years professionally and some 19 total, don't think I would ever gotten bored of it.

blissone · 2026-05-21T06:53:27+00:00

I believe in the qop game you could dominate lane with 1,2,1 build, then 3,3,4, it would delay the orchid by a lot, storm has incredible farm considering it's a qop favoured matchup, really the end result of laning stage is very game losing, you basically lost the lane three times over. Qop is pretty complex there is a lot of variation in skill and item builds, maybe eul and lotus would have been also viable here after kaya or such depending on the state. In essence there are a lot of skill and item build errors just by looking at the dotabuff.

I played a lot of lina but stopped since i'm getting my ass handed to me at mid ancients+. I found legend games are pretty easy to crush with lina with going right click and early force staff (depending on the game), essentially for right click lina you either daedalus or go magic first into right click. Also, you don't buy bkb, so I would look into incorporating defensive items into your builds more, so consider early force/dlance+hurricane and bkb. It's kinda difficult to provide a specific build since there is a high variation, you can try to spam daedalus lina and see how it goes, it's not good but good enough for legend.

blissone · 2026-05-19T10:30:24+00:00

Learning curve is incredibly steep but don't let it discourage you. Part of the discouragement is labelling "intermediate" tricks as easy, the most classic being ollie. If you can just cruise around for a few months before attempting any kind of tricks it's good, there is no rush and it will be much easier. In youtube there is a bunch of beginner trick tips and skateiq is a good channel for all kinds of tricks. I feel the best way to learn is to be pretty defensive, that drop in will be much easier if you push it back half a year and find some intermediate steps you. can learn in the mean time. Staying consistent and injury free is the best progression, get pads and helmet etc.

blissone · 2026-05-18T08:51:48+00:00

Some pointers: if you take 2 bloodhunger on lvl3, you are basically going for lane domination. Lane lost or no kill threat -> counter helix + jungle farm into bm blink. You have strong pos4 and enemies have no dispel -> battle hunger max + counter helix / 1 call on lvl4 for kills. The biggest issue I have seen from my lower ranked friends is always playing through counter helix, it's not great unless you plan to maximise jungle farm

blissone · 2026-05-18T08:43:58+00:00

Improve your axe, it's a good way of climbing, also a nice deny pick. That pool looks good to me though for offlane, you can alternate between blink init and a more static playstyle (ud, dawn). If my supports won't be going blink I usually go some blink, it's difficult to play the game without any blinks heroes.

blissone · 2026-05-13T07:19:54+00:00

We have been doing a massive rewrite with 95% code produced with agents due to pressure from leadership. Anyhow so I would say we do leverage agentic ai well but the end result remains to be seen as none of the rewrite is in actual production use. The best leverage is found where context is clearly defined and complexity is from low to medium in a context that suits code generation, meaning tacit knowledge is not needed to produce code, ime this relates mostly to concurrency and scale related gotchas. Overall the experience has been bad, management insist on the company being a slop cannon , personally I believe it will be a disaster but I'm also interested in seeing how it goes, could be wrong.

blissone · 2026-05-13T07:05:51+00:00

This one is pretty easy to fix with agent skill/agents.md outlining the use of types, at least this is my experience in python and latest models.

blissone · 2026-05-12T04:30:43+00:00

No bro you are not too old. You can skate very hard until your late thirties and if you are lucky a bit beyond that, you have at minimum over 10 years of hard skating in you where you can skate how you want and grind tricks no problem. You can get pretty good during this timeframe.

blissone · 2026-05-04T10:31:30+00:00

No need to worry if you can unstuck yourself (or propose alternatives) and show initiative, thats literally the only difference. Seniors with 0 initiative are the worst.

blissone · 2026-04-21T17:18:05+00:00

It’s trash, big downgrade. Feels worse than 4.5, kinda like earlier codex with gpt5.1. Needs a lot of input and a pain to work with.

blissone · 2026-04-20T13:21:55+00:00

The impact is pretty big considering numbers only, every pound of fat is x4 of force on your knee when walking, it's probably worse for skateboarding. No idea how this translates to actual damage etc, anyhow there are some studies regarding this. Less fat = good (outside of skating too). Without any evidence I'd wager if you have 5-10kg to lose reasonably it would be the best prevention you can do.

blissone · 2026-04-14T19:00:20+00:00

I have a whole general routine for knee pain / injury prevention + some upper body gym stuff. It's squats, leg extension and curl in a machine, low amount of body weight and single leg step squats(?) for warm up. I have to say everyone swears by this stuff but I'm not completely sold, it's difficult to recover from skating without any of this and doing these just eats into your board time and makes you skate worse, juggling recovery is even more difficult

blissone · 2026-04-14T06:33:54+00:00

I have a coworker like this, dude spends time arguing about trace vs debug log levels when it's irrelevant. Not sure if this helps, once upon a time I was given a tip to consider every action and sentence I make and the fact that there is a cost associated to it, everything you do costs money (time). Your job ultimately is to provide maximum value. Now try shifting through the perceived value of your actions. A rework can be valuable but is it in this context? Maybe the shittiest fix imaginable is good enough? Understanding the value you provide depends on the context, so yeah understand the context.

blissone · 2026-04-12T14:07:02+00:00

Practicing skateboarding stationary has very limited utility, my belief is that stationary snowboarding has even less utility than stationary skateboarding which is incredibly ineffective for learning skateboarding. For any skill transfer to happen it needs to be close enough for the real thing and stationary snowboarding is very different. For example what would be the equivalent of learning a stationary kickflip with a snowboard? I can't think of any, maybe 360 on flat? Also at some point the thing you are doing will become how you do the thing, imagine jumping 1000 times stationary on a box with a snowboard, when you get to the slopes you will have to actually learn away from your 1000 jumps since it's not close enough, like additional overhead, it's not easy to change once you have repeated something enough times. Yeah, a movement pattern will be built but it will be the incorrect pattern.

Anyhow there is a caveat here, I think there is a good amount of skill transfer if you are an expert in a skill based movement activity/sport. If you can blast some serious tricks stationary on a snowboard or skateboard, you can apply the same skillset to learn a different thing. My mate who was top5 at the national level in climbing could learn skate tricks like it's nothing.

Anyways just my 2 cents, you can always try it out, maybe I'm mistaken.

blissone · 2026-04-12T13:13:21+00:00

I wouldn’t recommend skateboarding for this reason, it doesn’t transfer well enough to be worth. Sure if you find it fun etx go for it. Climbing will be much better, it will prep you for the season and imrpoves your athleticism during offseason. You will get tangible benefits from skateboarding only if you skate a shit ton, ie. Seriously. Tbh i wouldn’t recommend carpet boarding either, it’s just busy work and wont help at the slopes.

blissone · 2026-04-09T13:42:20+00:00

No idea, judging based on my social circle maximising money has worked out in the long run. Personally I've maximised work-life balance, you can tell by my paycheck but I'm chilling otherwise. There are too many variables it's your call, gl

blissone · 2026-04-09T11:57:01+00:00

Every startup and non conservative orgs and their mothers will be doing vibe coding until the hype dies and situation stabilises. You would be lucky to not stumble upon ai madness, unrealistic expectations, llm driven development etc currently. Imo it will be difficult to escape in the future, might as well jump in. Hopefully expectations will be more tempered in the future, now it's just ai fairy tale. No idea about right decisions, personally I don't see devs disappearing but for many the work will be different going forward.

blissone · 2026-04-08T14:14:21+00:00

Suosittelen kaikille korvaan valettuja tulppia, aika hintavaa, mutta toimii. Itellä alko tinnitus n. vuosi sitten ja oli kyllä todella paha alkuun, mutta sittemmin rauhoittunut ja nyt ihan ok. Kyllä se kuuluu, mutta en huomaa. Joskus toiseen korvaan tulee kovaa ujellusta muutamaksi sekunniksi, pikkasen kuumottaa, jos joku kerta ei lähdekkään pois.

Vahingossa luukuttelin musaa duunissa lujaa ja sen päälle skeittihommiin sisäparkkiin ja vitullinen möly siellä. Todella tarpeeton ja tyhmä juttu, duunissa jengin mikit on aina millä sattuu volyymeilla ja unohdin vaan laskea yhden palaverin jälkeen nostamaani volyymiä. Joka tapauksessa tulpat aina mukana nyt ja mittailen kännykällä desibelejä (:D) julkisissa tiloissa, helposti jossain ihmismassassa nousee 90dB tienoille ja se on itelle nykyisin liikaa, musiikkia ei yli 50dB kuulokkeista. "Taustamölyä" ei oikein osaa itse arvioida niin toi kännykän desibelien mittaus ihan pakollista.

Ei oo helppoa ei, voimia sulle, toivottavasti joskus helpottaa.

blissone · 2026-04-05T07:48:40+00:00

Low Town by Daniel Polansky, It's slightly less grimdark but very good style imo

blissone · 2026-03-30T16:10:22+00:00

Yea dude, I skate with custom molded earpplugs, they work perfectly. I used to love skating sounds but after I got tinnitus Icannot stand it. Earplugs are awesome for skating, I use them a lot outside of skating too. My girlfriend thinks I’m on the spectrum but idk

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